300 for Curry

Joshua Koch

01/09/2013

Texas Tech head coach Kristy Curry joined the 300 club on Wednesday night winning her 300th game as a head coach.

As the final
seconds ran off the clock inside the United Spirit Arena on Wednesday night,
Texas Tech head coach Kristy Curry looked up at the scoreboard to see her squad
walking away with a 59-50 victory improving to 12-3 overall this season and 2-1
in Big 12 Conference play.

The next number to
come to mind, as the Matador song played, was the number 300.

300 marks the
number of career victories as a head coach the Lady Raider victory against
Kansas State gave the seventh year head coach of Texas Tech.

"You always
remember the losses than the wins," Curry said. "But it's not about me I'm just
a small part, I've had amazing people around me from my coaches to my player to
the support staff to my secretaries just every single person that's been a part
of my life, I've just been blessed with so many opportunities and just tried to
make the most of it and I'm just happy we got a win tonight, that's the most
important thing."

The win marked the
121st win of Curry's career at the helm of the Lady Raider program.

Before taking over
the program in 2005, taking over for National Championship winning coach Marsha
Sharp, Curry spent seven seasons as the head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers.

Curry garnered win
No. 100 in the midst of the 2002-2003 season where she took Purdue to the Sweet
Sixteen for the third time in her tenure.

Win No. 200 came in
the 2007-2008 campaign as a part of a 17-16 season, where Curry took the Lady
Raiders to the postseason for the first time as the head coach at Tech.

Now win No. 300 has
come in the 2012-2013 season with yet another new crop of players including
junior Kelsi Baker.

Baker tied for the
team-high in scoring with 14 points on Wednesday night said it was a great
accomplishment to be a part of.

"It's a great
feeling," she said. "This whole team is a family including Coach Curry and the
coaching staff and the people we surround ourselves with so anytime anybody
makes an accomplishment like that it's a great feeling for the team as well as
Casey's 1000 points and her 300th win it's just a great feeling for the whole
organization and program."